P.S. It seems to be getting worse. Games that did not used to have this problem now do. The crtl alt del fix works less often than it used to.

Hello mrice895,

Welcome to PCHF.

Make sure that your monitor actually supports the resolution and frequency that your trying to change to. You'll find that *all* monitors have a maximum resolution and a range of frequencies that can be used. If you go outside these settings, you will normally experience an error "out of range", a fuzzy or blank screen. Right click on your desktop and go to Properties, Settings tab, Advanced followed by the Monitor tab. You can change your frequency / refresh rate here, which is normally between 60 - 75hz.

Yes, I know the specifications of my monitor and am not exceeding them at any time in any way. The CRT monitor is the one that gave the out of range error, which, i now realize that it was. I fixed the settings, and tried again, however, the CRT monitor behaved in exactly the same way that my LCD does. I have tried several different adapters, which make no difference. I am hoping that perhaps for some reason it just doesnt like the adapters that i use, which are the cheap ones that came with my monitor and motherboard. I have a freind that was a DVI monitor and hopefully i can get ahold of him to test this.

I can't see the cable being the cause of your problems, they normally either work, or don't, as long as you have a ferrite bead towards the plug of that monitor cable. What frequency and resolution did you try setting it to when you had your problems?

That is just the thing it cannot be the frequency or resolution because it works until I try to boot up a game. As I said it is also getting worse because a game that used to not have any problems with this, just today, started having this problem and yet I changed no settings.